L.A. Noire is an action-adventure neo-noir crime game played from a third-person perspective.
Players complete cases--linear scenarios with set objectives--to progress through the story.
The game also features a mode which allows players to freely roam the open world. In this mode, players can also engage in optional activities.
The world features multiple landmarks, which are all based on real monuments from 1940s Los Angeles.
The game takes place in the city of Los Angeles, in the year 1947, with players assuming the role of Los Angeles Police Department officer, and later detective, Cole Phelps.
The game starts with Phelps as a uniformed patrolman,and follows his career as he advances through the police department bureaus (desks) of Traffic, Homicide, Vice and Arson.
Each desk gives players a new partner who will help Phelps in his investigation of a number of cases based on a specific type of crime.
The game assigns players with cases that they must solve...